Shadow Ravenwolf

Odd. I Lost Connection to Mapserver and got whacked back to the login. I rebooted my machine and got straight back on. Odd because it was 5:20pm EDT, not 4:50pm CST.

That was my only connection issue in the past 18 hours.

First, I started my post in EditPlus 20 minutes before you came in the door. My response was being typed in between several other conversations and things I'm doing right now.

You can't say whether or not the cap existed before Issue 17. Therefore you can't say that it was there before last week. In your post above, you question whether it was or was not there. You insert your opinion that there was no reason for someone to send 150 emails unless they were an RMTer. You then you say it "could" have been there, "thus not making this a stealth anything." You can't refer to an opinion in a previous post and declare it Gospel and then tell me that it's not a stealth cap. I will agree that it is possible that the cap existed and your conclusion holds merit. I will also agree that your explanation was erroneous because the cap may not have been there and we had no reason to surpass it and see. With a cap of 150 members per SG and running many SGs, it is possible that you would be able to send more than 150 emails per day. While the system is severely limited and clunky, I can't rule out that possibility.

The biggest complaint in this thread comes from someone with 2 accounts, as you say. Well I have many accounts as well. However, my examples were from the perspective of a single account holder. The examples given were specifically bloated. How do you guess that? Could it be my tongue firmly in cheek giving it away? Yeah, I sure had a hard time playing this game up until now.

Missing the point of why the cap is "needed" ... sure am. First, Gold Spammers don't use Global Handles. No email I ever recieved ever came to my global handle. Secondly, if I want to limit the spammers, I just go Menu>Option> and click the "RMT stfu" button where it says Email: Friends and Supergroup.

Yes, my tongue is firmly in my cheek as I type out some of these ridiculous examples. Unfortunately, only #4 is too far fetched, but not by what I've seen in the Market Forums. I know that the crafting examples would be more efficient if you dropped stuff in SG Bins and just bought straight from the market. I made the examples a little goofy for emphasis, but it's not far off the truth. Some players don't have access to storage in their SG/VGs bases. To some of these people, the email option was a godsend.

The point is simple. Anyone who would use the emails already has a 20 mail cap on storage. If you're crafting, you're churning that 20 over and over and the inventory has to go somewhere. It's being circulated and used. Even if a few players are hoarding and sending all of their wealth to storage alts, you can't use such a hamfisted unFix as a cap like this to solve hoarding. Capping the amount of emails per day is downright archaic. It will not hurt the RMT Spammers or those 5 players who are "hoarding" ...(you know who you are. Stop it right this very minute!!1!). It only serves to hinder the potential of yet another feature that seems to be being beat down after release.

Is it that the servers can only handle so much email traffic? We have a limit of 15 seconds between emails. Realistically, you're not going to ever send an email every 15 seconds. Even if you are sending a few hundred emails, the fastest I can see would be 20 seconds. That's 5 seconds from the time you click new, fill in the info, attach the item, and click send and the 15 second cool down. Looking at my example above, 300 emails to get the salvages sent would still take me 100 straight minutes of cranking out emails.

While the average player will not be spending 2 hours sending emails each day, there will be times when the 150 limit is just too clunky.

I could get behind this. Especially if we could take our slots above 36/server.

I'll have to honestly answer No. I have not met the Devs in person. I have never been to a Con. Unfortunately, I do not have massive reserves of cash on hand like I do in game. I also do not have the liberty of nonchalantly booking a Jet to whisk me away from my meaningless existence and job that I value for it pays my bills and keeps me plugged into this game I love.

So, if you want to pony up the cash to reimburse me for the wages I'll miss (I work rotating 12-18 hour overnight weekend shift as part of my job ... every &^%&^% weekend unless I'm in the hospital or morgue), and willing to pay for lodging, meals, airfare, and any incidentals, then Yes, the next time there's a Convention on the other end of this continent where the Devs will be meeting with players, I will be first in line to personally discuss the concerns we have.

Until then, or the day I hit the Lotto, I will take advantage of the PMs and missives that I can access without great detriment to my meager style of life.

List after List. Comprehensive discussions ranging from features we as a playerbase of Base Monkeys wanted to what bugs needed to be fixed.

CoX Issue 13: All your base are belong to us?

Enter Sunstorm
Progress and Serious Community Relations begin.
CoX Issue 13: Power and Responsibility
Exit Sunstorm
So I'm thinking Hell will freeze over, or atleast get clogged with a bazillion DS/? MMs before we ever get around to a discussion of our issues, let alone actually seeing progression in development of Bases.


I may have grown cynical over the years, but that hopeless romantic who thinks everything is going to workout without the need of full global genocide ...




... Is really waiting for a cold day in Hell.

Then my worst fears are realized. The Game and the RNG Hate Me!

*goes off to die alone in the Croatoan Wilderness*

None of my Non-TF missions were normal story arcs outside of Ouroboros except the radios. You say you got a drop in a radio. I also see reports of Temp Powers flowing like water to people on the new Posi TF. I just think the RNG hates me. I'm sure that I will eventually get a few.
If you want to, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
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